Rockies Poppies!

A really bright and beautiful start to term!

Big and loose and colourful. 

Today's group were from Rock Choir in Wokingham, they have painted a few times with us now.

It was a really fun day, lots of laughter with the occasional burst of song!

We used one of Claire's new paints, POPPY from her new range, and it was beautifully vibrant and perfect for the day.

To see what other classes are happening this term, click here

And if you fancy a sing, have a look at joining Rock Choir, they are all over the country and you can have a free session to see what you think (no auditions!)

Rock Choir

Poppies with CAMEO

Today was all about bright and beautiful poppies.

A local group returned to Newbury for a social day alongside painting a watercolour.

Claire helped them in her usual step by step style, explaining and demonstrating each stage in detail. 

CAMEO (come and meet each other) are a support group (and lifeline they say) for parents of special needs children in Newbury, so today was a well earned treat and break.

Below are some of the finished paintings (some of which were painted by complete beginners!) 

We discovered that the day was all thanks to William and Kate and the Royal Wedding!

Instead of presents, the Royal couple had asked for donations to their favoured charities.

One of the charities is the Berkshire Community Foundation, who received some money and they suggested that CAMEO apply for funding as William and Kate particularly wanted to support carers.

They were delighted to find out their application was successful; a great day at Treetops was planned, and we raised a toast to the couple at lunch, whilst also speculating as to whether the Royal baby will be a boy or a girl! 

* See the film of Claire demonstrating "Poppies in a Meadow" on her website:  www.saa.co.uk/art/claire

Watercolour Poppies March 2013

A beautiful day of Poppy Painting!

Here is our group hard at work.

This is our delicious pud, from The Intolerant Gourmet book by Pippa Kendrick.

Our Summer Term dates will be out next week.

Return to the blog to see what we have in store!

Banish the Winter Blues - January 2013

Every January we start with a bright and colourful painting to cheer us up, and this year Claire chose beautiful bright poppies.

Very vibrant and fun to paint.

We have another Poppy class on Tuesday 5 March, there is 1 space left!

Poppies Watercolour Class - 28 April 2011

We had lovely day today, painting a wild flower meadow which featured lots of Poppies.

We also added buttercups and daisies.

The day involved mixing a variety of colours and some masking of small flower shapes and poppy outlines, after lunch the poppies really began to take shape, especially when we dropped the black watercolour into the centre.

Here is Claire demonstrating a technique to us.